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Shanghai Translation Publishing House

Also known as: 上海译文出版社等

Founded
1978
Country / Region
China
Notable books
Never Let Me GoLes Misérables (2 Volumes)Peak Works of 20th-Century English Literature (27-Volume Set)

3436 books 2053 authors

About the publisher

Shanghai Translation Publishing House is a Chinese publisher oriented mainly toward translation and publishing. Its publications cover foreign literature, world classics and classic works, as well as social culture, folk literature and classical poetry. The database contains 2,618 titles, including Never Let Me Go, Les Misérables (2 volumes), Don Quixote (illustrated collector's edition), The Complete Comedies of Molière (4 volumes), The Complete Novels of Kafka (3 volumes), The Collected Works of Dostoevsky (9-volume set), Reason and Persons, and Oedipus Rex (Translation Classics). Its author resources include foreign writers such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Victor Hugo, Cervantes and Molière, as well as translators such as Zheng Kelu, Sun Jiameng, Li Jianwu and Zhang Kun. The publisher has brands such as "Translation Classics Selections" and "Translation Documentary," and emphasizes translated works in foreign literature and the humanities and social sciences, while also publishing bilingual dictionaries and foreign-language educational books. Public information is limited; the above is based on the book information in the database.

Published (3436)

Antigone (Yiwen Classics) cover
Rating 4.8
Antigone (Yiwen Classics) 索福克勒斯 / 吕健忠 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 Antigone is a masterpiece by the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles, first performed in 442 BC. It is widely recognized as one of the greatest works in…
Snow Country cover
Rating 4.8
Snow Country Kawabata Yasunari / 岳远坤 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 Snow Country is a representative novel by Yasunari Kawabata and a defining work of his aestheticism. Set in the snow country of northern Japan, it tel…
Oedipus Rex (Yiwen Classics) cover
Rating 4.8
Oedipus Rex (Yiwen Classics) 索福克勒斯 / 吕健忠 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 Oedipus Rex is the masterpiece of the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles, first performed around 430 BC and hailed as the pinnacle of Greek tragic art.…
A Streetcar Named Desire cover
Rating 4.7
A Streetcar Named Desire 田纳西·威廉斯 / Feng Tao Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 A Streetcar Named Desire is Williams’s crowning dramatic work. The heroine, Blanche, is a typical Southern belle; after her family’s decline, she refu…
The Banality of Evil (Yiwen Classics) cover
Rating 4.7
The Banality of Evil (Yiwen Classics) Hannah Arendt / 安尼 / 林佳 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil is the magnum opus of Hannah Arendt, the German-American political theorist. In 1961 she trave…
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Translation Classics) cover
Rating 4.7
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Translation Classics) Leo Tolstoy / 赵桂莲 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 The Death of Ivan Ilyich is Tolstoy's most important short story from his late years. Through a meticulous, unsparing depiction of the entire process …
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Rating 4.7
The Rebel Albert Camus / 沈志明 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 The Rebel is one of the representative works of Albert Camus, the literary master of French absurdist existentialism. In this wide-ranging and richly …
Berlin Spy Shadow (Works of John le Carré) cover
Rating 4.6
Berlin Spy Shadow (Works of John le Carré) John le Carré / 周小进 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 1960s Berlin. In the shadow of the Berlin Wall, British agent Leamas watches helplessly as his last asset is executed by East German sentries. Just as…
The Old Capital cover
Rating 4.6
The Old Capital Kawabata Yasunari / 岳远坤 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 In the old capital of Kyoto, Chieko, adopted by a kimono merchant, grows into a beautiful young woman. One night during the Gion Festival, she meets a…
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Rating 4.6
Thousand Cranes Kawabata Yasunari / 岳远坤 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 Thousand Cranes is a representative novel by Yasunari Kawabata and one of the three novels mentioned by the Nobel Committee when he was awarded the No…
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn cover
Rating 4.6
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 贝蒂·史密斯 / 吴杨 / 周雪 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a semi-autobiographical novel by American writer Betty Smith. The experiences of its protagonist, Francie Nolan, almost mi…
The Fall cover
Rating 4.6
The Fall Albert Camus / 沈志明 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 The Fall is a searing, deeply human confession by its protagonist, Jean-Baptiste Clamence. In a bar in Amsterdam's Mexican City quarter, Clamence, who…
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof cover
Rating 4.6
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 田纳西·威廉斯 / 陈良廷 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 Along with The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire, this play is regarded as one of Tennessee Williams's three major works. The script portra…
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Rating 4.6
Boule de Suif Guy de Maupassant / 郝运 / 王振孙 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 Set against the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, Boule de Suif tells of ten people representing every stratum of French society who share a carriage …
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Rating 4.6
A Strange Tale of the East Bank Nagai Kafū Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 In his later years, the writer Ōe Tadashi, seeking escape from the noise at home and a taste of old-world charm, often roams at night the back alleys …
Bel-Ami cover
Rating 4.5
Bel-Ami Guy de Maupassant / 王振孙 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 Bel Ami is Maupassant's most representative and most mature novel. Duroy, a junior officer in the French colonial army in Algeria, comes to Paris and …
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: Selected Lyric Poems of Frost cover
Rating 4.5
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: Selected Lyric Poems of Frost 罗伯特·弗罗斯特 / 周林东 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 Robert Frost's poetry inherited the tradition of English Romantic poetry while also innovating within the twentieth-century Anglo-American modernist m…
The Bridge: The Complete Poems of Hart Crane cover
Rating 4.5
The Bridge: The Complete Poems of Hart Crane 哈特·克兰 / 陈东飚 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 No American poet changed the course of poetry as swiftly as Hart Crane. In his troubled, brief life, Crane created a singular modern language, fusing …
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Rating 4.5
The Right to the City 亨利·列斐伏尔 / 叶齐茂 / 倪晓晖 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 Published in 1968, The Right to the City is a foundational work of urban sociology and radical geography. In it, Lefebvre proposes a concept of "right…
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Rating 4.5
Babette's Feast 伊萨克·迪内森 / 郁祎 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 A spiritual miracle quietly descends amid the clinking of glasses—the original work behind the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 60t…

Frequent authors

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (71)Haruki Murakami (68)Marguerite Duras (66)Ernest Miller Hemingway (62)George Orwell (59)William Shakespeare (59)Jorge Luis Borges (58)Ian McEwan (56)Susan Sontag (52)Alain de Botton (47)Lin Shaohua (46)W. Somerset Maugham (39)